Browsing Max Weber Programme (MWP) by Title

Title:A Global History of Ottoman Cotton Textiles, 1600-1850
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Author(s):GEKAS, AthanasiosDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2007/30Abstract:This paper arises from the project on "Cotton textiles as a global industry, 1200-1800",
carried out at the LSE and as part of the Global Economic History Network. The paper
revisits and situates the historiography of ...

Title:The Global Order as a Potential Case of Background Injustice
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Author(s):RONZONI, MiriamDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2009/23Abstract:Is the global order unjust? And if so, why? The paper argues that the central question to be asked within the debate on global distributive and economic justice is not whether the global order is characterized by the ...

Title:Global Warming and Climate Policies
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Author(s):GUESNERIE, RogerDate:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LS; 2008/01Abstract:The paper starts reviewing some basics of the climate science and economics of the
greeenhouse effect. It stresses the nature and extent of uncertainty on both sides as well
as the political background of present climate ...

Title:The globalisation of inequality
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Author(s):BOURGUIGNON, FrançoisDate:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LS; 2013/02Abstract:There has been an apparently contradictory trend in the global inequality in living standards over the past quarter-century. On the one hand, global inequality between countries has decreased significantly, while on the ...

Title:Globalization and the Politics of Subsidies
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Author(s):AYDIN, UmutDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2008/11Abstract:State subsidies to attract investment have proliferated since the 1980s, yet we know little about the factors that influence governments’ subsidy policies. In this paper, I propose that in making subsidy policies, governments ...

Title:Governing America: the Emergence of Behavioral Law and Economics
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Author(s):JOLLS, ChristineDate:2010Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LS; 2010/03Abstract:Bounded rationality is an important and pervasive characteristic of much human behavior. Legal policy under American President Barack Obama has been strongly influenced by behavioral economics' understanding of boundedly ...

Title:The Great Moderation, the Great Panic and the Great Contraction
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Author(s):BEAN, CharlesDate:2010Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LS; 2010/02Abstract:This lecture examines the causes of the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession. On the macroeconomic side, the Great Moderation encouraged an overly optimistic assessment of risk. Combined with low interest rates, ...